With the Académie des Sciences in 2013-2014

With the Académie des Sciences in

2013 - 2014

Vietnam

From 15 to 17 October 2014, a joint scientific meeting between the Académie des Sciences and the VietNam Academy of Science

and Technology, which are partners since 2013 by a cooperation agreement, was held in Hanoi around

The Chemistry of Natural

Substances.

India

Within the framework of their cooperation agreements, the Académie des Sciences and Indian National Sciences Academy organize

the Etienne-Wolff-Ramanujan Lectures: on 18 June, Marthanda Sankaran Valiathan gave a lecture at the Académie on Ayurveda and

Modern Science. On 21 April 2014, Nicole Le Douarin, the Secrétaire perpétuel honoraire of the Académie, came to New Delhi to

lecture at a conference entitled

The neural Crest, a Source of Stem Cells and its Role in the Development and Evolution of Vertebrates

In Latin America

For historical reasons related to migration flows, Francophone

culture is particularly present in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay -

since 2012, this country has been a member of the International

Organisation of La Francophonie (Organisation Internationale de la

Francophonie). The special proximity between France and Uruguay

is at the core of the scientific cooperation agreement that the

Academies of science of the two countries have settled on in 2014.

In December 2014, Jean-François Bach and Catherine Bréchignac,

the Secrétaires perpétuels of the Académie des Sciences, have taken

part to the French-Uruguayan

Sciences, Technologies, Education for

a Sustainable Development

seminar that took place in Montevideo

on the occasion of the Week of the Committee of the Institut Pasteur

of Montevideo.

In December 2014, the French and Argentinian academies of science, which signed their first cooperation agreement in 2004,

gathered in Buenos Aires and settled on a new agreement before a colloquium on immunology was held, to which a delegation of

members of the Académie took part, led by Jean-François Bach.

In Africa

Algeria

The Algerian government wished to endow its country with an academy of

sciences and technologies whose statutes would meet the international

standards. The Académie des Sciences advised the government in this view

and was particularly involved in the empanelment of an international jury to

process the applications for the future academy. This selection process of a

first wave of academicians, started in 2014, will secure the independence of

the Algerian academy and thus ensure its worldwide reputation.